TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nicholls,Johanna
TI  - Ghost gum valley
SN  - 9780731815210 (pbk.)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cammeray, N.S.W.
PB  - Simon and Schuster Australia
KW  - Penal colonies
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Secrets
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - This sweeping saga is set in the early days of the Colony of New South Wales and follows the adventures of Isabel de Rolland, an English aristocrat descended from the Plantagenets, as she is sent out to the penal colony to marry Marmaduke Gamble, in a deal organised by their elders. The debts of Isabel's family are paid in exchange for the respectability that her lineage gives the rich ex-convict Gamble family. From the inauspicious beginnings of their arranged marriage, Isabel and Marmaduke develop a grudging friendship that looks to bloom into something more. But the secrets of the past are destined to haunt them and the madness and darkness of their families threaten to overwhelm them
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